Table 8.
Effect of pequi oil on rumen microbial diversitya in wethers fed a hay-based diet fold-changes for specific groups after supplementation of pequi oil.
| Treatment | SEM | P-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | Pequi | Fold-changesb | |||
| Total bacteria | 19.05 | 19.07 | 0.465 | 0.98 | −0.037 |
| Ruminococcus flavefaciens | 8.47 | 7.81 | 0.662 | 0.52 | −0.212 |
| Fibrobacter succinogenes | 10.19 | 8.27 | 1.177 | 0.31 | −0.882 |
| Ruminococcus albus | 7.87 | 9.22 | 1.757 | 0.62 | 0.791 |
| Clostridium sp. | 14.45 | 13.48 | 86.82 | 0.99 | −0.300 |
| Archaea | 7.42 | 6.74 | 0.718 | 0.54 | −0.401 |
| Protozoa | 7.04 | 6.45 | 0.678 | 0.56 | −0.301 |
| Fungi | 8.75 | 7.68 | 1.07 | 0.52 | −0.245 |
a
Copies of amplicon from 16S rRNA that have been amplified by primers specific to each microorganism. Data have been natural log (LN) transformed.
b
Fold-changes for specific groups after supplementation of pequi oil. Log2 (Pequi/Control): Vargas et al. (24). SEM, standard error of the means.